Unlike so many people, who, either from lack of energy or else from a resigned sense of the obligation laid upon them by their social grandeur to remain moored like houseboats to a certain point on the bank of the stream of life, abstain from the pleasures which are offered to them above and below that point, that degree in life in which they will remain fixed until the day of their death, and are content, in the end, to describe as pleasures, for want of any better, those mediocre distractions, that just not intolerable tedium which is enclosed there with them; Swann would endeavour not to find charm and beauty in the women with whom he must pass time, but to pass his time among women whom he had already found to be beautiful and charming.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

I recollect a very fine amphitheatre, surrounded with hills covered with woods, and walks neatly formed along the side of a rocky steep, on the quarter next the house with recesses under projections of rock, overshadowed with trees; in one of which recesses, we were told, Congreve wrote his Old Bachelor.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Sometimes the race was kept up to the very gates of the temple, and the panting pair sped through long files of excited natives, who watched the contest with flashing eye and dilated nostril, encouraging the hunted refugee with sharp, inspiriting ejaculations, and sending up a ringing shout of exultation when the saving gates closed upon him and the cheated pursuer sank exhausted at the threshold.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Bágis kaáyu nang bayhána apan magpahinhin dáyun igpamisíta sa íyang trátu, She’s a rough sort of woman, but when her boy friend calls on her, she is ever so delicate.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I have a right to share in sorrow, and he who can look at the loveliness of the world and share its sorrow, and realise something of the wonder of both, is in immediate contact with divine things, and has got as near to God’s secret as any one can get.
— from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

It is not at all too late to restore an approximately rational state of English possessions without any mere confiscation.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

His natural inclination to blame, hitherto kept entirely in abeyance toward his father by the predisposition to think him always right, simply on the ground that he was Tom Tulliver's father, was turned into this new channel by his mother's plaints; and with his indignation against Wakem there began to mingle some indignation of another sort.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

I was so tired of saloons, jets d’eau, groves, parterres, and of more fatiguing persons by whom they were shown; so exhausted with pamphlets, harpsichords, trios, unravellings of plots, stupid bon mots, insipid affections, pitiful storytellers, and great suppers; that when I gave a side glance at a poor simple hawthorn bush, a hedge, a barn, or a meadow; when, in passing through a hamlet, I scented a good chervil omelette, and heard at a distance the burden of a rustic song of the Bisquieres; I wished all rouge, furbelows and ambergris at the devil, and envying the dinner of the good housewife, and the wine of her own vineyard, I heartily wished to give a slap on the chaps to Monsieur le Chef and Monsieur le Maitre, who made me dine at the hour of supper, and sup when I should have been asleep, but especially to Messieurs the lackeys, who devoured with their eyes the morsel I put into my mouth, and upon pain of my dying with thirst, sold me the adulterated wine of their master, ten times dearer than that of a better quality would have cost me at a public house.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The children would come running from the kitchen-garden, bringing a carrot and a radish smelling of fresh earth....
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

They weave the finest and handsomest carpets in the world, and also a great quantity of fine and rich silks of cramoisy and other colours, and plenty of other stuffs.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The very conquest of the biological sciences by the new ideas has led many to proclaim an explicit and rigid separation of philosophy from science.
— from The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and other essays in contemporary thought by John Dewey

The fact that America possesses 14 altogether peculiar families, while no less than 23 Old-World families are entirely absent from it, plainly indicates, that, if this division does not represent the most ancient and radical separation of the land surface of the globe, it must still be one of very great antiquity, and have modified in a very marked way the distribution of all living things.
— from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 2 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface by Alfred Russel Wallace

One after another they had been taken off their runs, until the J. N. Teal , for which I was now waiting, was the last steamer operating in a regular service on the Columbia above Portland.
— from Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

[55] The alleged mode of action is exemplified by Prof. Weismann as follows :— "A goose or a duck must possess strong powers of flight in the natural state, but such powers are no longer necessary for obtaining food when it is brought into the poultry-yard, so that a rigid selection of individuals with well-developed wings, at once ceases among its descendants.
— from The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2) by Herbert Spencer

He encounters a rising standard of living.
— from The Future in America: A Search After Realities by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

About 500 Onondagas still live on a reservation south of Syracuse.
— from The Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Information of the Towns, Cities and Country Passed Through Between New York and Chicago Via the New York Central Lines. Based on the Encyclopaedia Britannica. by New York Central Railroad Company

A village with a railway station on the Lambourn line four miles north-west of Newbury.
— from Berkshire by Horace Woollaston Monckton

The CITY OF ALWAR has a railway station on the Rajputana line, 98 m. from Delhi; pop.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Roots start on the cions sooner than on the stock, the soil being warmer at the surface, and help sustain the cions until the stocks are well rooted, at which time all roots started on the cion are removed, and at the same time the tying material is cut if it has not rotted.
— from Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick